[fpc-devel] Less comprehensive progress output for fpmake

[Darius Blaszyk]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:04 +0100, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 18:05 +0100, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
> > I have created a patch for fpmake that hides some of the raw compiler
> > output. The new output looks more like scons and is actually more clear
> > imho. You can however still get full output by passing the -v option to
> > fpmake.
> > 
> > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18051
> > 
> > 
> > Output with patch applied will be:
> > 
> > >./fpmake
> >        Compiling test.pp
> >        Linking test
> > [ 50%] Built target target1
> >        Compiling test.pp
> >        Linking test
> > [100%] Built target target2
> > Done
> 
> Nice, this was on my todo-list. Can you now make it so that when an
> error occurs, the compiler-command and output are shown by default.
> (Also without -v?)

Joost,

The major "problem" we will have to solve is localization. Now the code
depends on the words "Compiling" and "linking". Is there a way to
circumvent this?
I could for instance only strip the header information and show that
(properly indented). What do the other say?

Darius